Ways Of Seeing John Peter Berger Summary

John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.

His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, often use as a university text.

Since he has more art monographs come out, one of the most famous book “Ways of seeing”.

Today I ’d like to introduce him after read his book.

But for his discerning art theory I think it is worth here to share with you.

Let me introduce the contents of this book briefly ,

This book is about the relationship between art and society, with the British BBC TV series of the same name written in the book.

Each article discusses a theme, such as: art and politics, women as the object of viewing,

The contradiction

So she turns herself into an object / landscape, or even a visual object: a line of sight.

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For you own pleasure.

In Europe, nude art, painters, audience collectors are usually men, the object of painting is often a woman. Because men can be seen from the woman’s nude happy.

So the use of nude art this excuse to paint a woman, of course, watch the woman naked. The woman’s naked meets the viewer’s desire, but the viewer is aware of it.

This unequal relationship is deeply rooted in our culture, which constitutes the psychological state of many women. They treat themselves in the way humanity treats them.

They look feminine like men. Man acting, woman performing. People watching women. A woman looks at herself and is watched by a man.

According to Berger, the Convention establishes the social presence of a woman different from that of a man.

The existence of a person depends on the strength of his embodiment, and the presence of a woman expresses her attitude towards herself and defines what she can and can not do.

The existence of a woman lies in her gestures, sounds, opinions, expressions, clothes, the choice of environment and the performance of